Clinical Development Engineer (Hybrid)
Kardium Inc.
Date: 12 hours ago
City: Burnaby, British Columbia
Contract type: Full time

Your opportunity
By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation – which can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.
Kardium’s mission is to deliver the best treatment for atrial fibrillation. To achieve this, we have developed The Globe Pulsed Field System – we have a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique, and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.
We have now completed our pivotal clinical study and our focus is on regulatory approvals and commercial launch. This is an exciting and significant milestone in our journey to bring this ground-breaking technology to patients.
Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.
Meaningful work you will be a part of
Responsibilities
As a Clinical Development Engineer, you will use your clinical and technical expertise to define, develop, and validate new products and features. You will work with engineers, physicians, product managers, and other stakeholders to identify user needs, develop new procedures and workflows, participate in design reviews, validate safety and efficacy in preclinical and clinical studies, and document continuous improvement feedback. Your responsibilities will include:
Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about developing cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work in a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. We understand that only by working together can we solve what was thought unsolvable.
You will be successful in this role because you possess these attributes:
Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% RRSP contribution) that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.
As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium’s stock option plan.
Total cash – the total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus a contribution to a Registered Retirement Savings plans (RRSP) to help support your financial goals.
Comprehensive medical & dental coverage – for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.
Work-day flexibility – additionally, we provide 3 personal days per year.
Support – for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.
Career progression and learning support.
Professional membership support.
Family building – we provide top up for both maternity leave & adoptive leave. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.
Life at Kardium
What makes us a great place to work?
We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, Brazilian ERG and Irish ERG.
As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.
And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!
By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation – which can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.
Kardium’s mission is to deliver the best treatment for atrial fibrillation. To achieve this, we have developed The Globe Pulsed Field System – we have a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique, and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.
We have now completed our pivotal clinical study and our focus is on regulatory approvals and commercial launch. This is an exciting and significant milestone in our journey to bring this ground-breaking technology to patients.
Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.
Meaningful work you will be a part of
Responsibilities
As a Clinical Development Engineer, you will use your clinical and technical expertise to define, develop, and validate new products and features. You will work with engineers, physicians, product managers, and other stakeholders to identify user needs, develop new procedures and workflows, participate in design reviews, validate safety and efficacy in preclinical and clinical studies, and document continuous improvement feedback. Your responsibilities will include:
- Collaborate with physicians and other users, using a data-driven approach to identify user needs
- Design, develop, and execute benchtop experiments to assess prototypes or complete clinical investigations
- Conduct pre-clinical testing to validate new products and features
- Provide field support as a mapper and hardware expert at early-stage pilot and pivotal clinical studies
- Provide user input on design of training and simulation tools
- Document continuous improvement feedback and determine the scope and direction of resulting investigations
- Provide input to Product Management, Systems, Mapping, and Product Design teams on areas for improvement and new feature development.
- Advise other teams at Kardium on best-practice clinical usage of the Globe system.
Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about developing cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work in a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. We understand that only by working together can we solve what was thought unsolvable.
You will be successful in this role because you possess these attributes:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, life science, or similar.
- 3+ years of experience in product development within the medical device industry.
- Strong mechanical aptitude and understanding of electrophysiology, cardiac physiology, or human anatomy.
- Experience in a hospital setting is an asset.
- Demonstrated ability to succinctly explain complicated technical concepts.
- Effective communication skills across interdisciplinary teams (verbal, written, presentation).
- Self-starter needing minimal supervision.
- Composed and able to react quickly under pressure.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time, domestic and internationally.
Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% RRSP contribution) that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.
As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium’s stock option plan.
- $78,000 - $106,000 (CAD Annually)
Total cash – the total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus a contribution to a Registered Retirement Savings plans (RRSP) to help support your financial goals.
Comprehensive medical & dental coverage – for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.
Work-day flexibility – additionally, we provide 3 personal days per year.
Support – for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.
Career progression and learning support.
Professional membership support.
Family building – we provide top up for both maternity leave & adoptive leave. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.
Life at Kardium
What makes us a great place to work?
- Our Purpose
- Our People
- Our Culture
We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, Brazilian ERG and Irish ERG.
As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.
And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!
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